Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel

Mercati

Peter Thiel's Founders Fund dumps every ETHZilla share

Peter Thiel's Founders Fund held zero shares in ether treasury firm ETHZillan at the end of 2025, per SEC filings.

Peter Thiel holding cash (Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Mercati

ETHZilla Shares Plunge Almost 30% as Dilution Fears Overshadow $349M Ether Treasury

The rebranded crypto treasury firm disclosed a 74.8M share offering, sparking concerns even as it holds more than 82,000 ETH and $238M in cash.

Ether price chart on a smartphone screen (Cedrik Wesche/Unsplash)

Mercati

Peter Thiel Reveals 9.1% Stake in Tom Lee's ETH-Focused Bitmine Immersion Technologies

BMNR is ahead 25% today, with ether up another 9% as interest continues to build in ETH corporate treasury strategies.

Peter Thiel

Mercati

Crypto Exchange Bullish Files for U.S. IPO as Digital Asset Enthusiasm Mounts: FT

Bullish filed confidential papers with the SEC as the Trump administration eases regulations and promotes digital assets.

Peter Thiel holds a microphone while speaking at The Cambridge Union.

Tecnologie

Peter Thiel-Backed Plasma Unveils 'HotStuff-Inspired Consensus' For High-Frequency Global Stablecoin Transfers

Other key features of Plasma include custom gas tokens, zero-charge USDT transfers, and confidential transactions while ensuring compliance.

Stylized network of light focii covering Earth (geralt/Pixabay)

Mercati

Bullish Global Weighs IPO as Early as This Year Amid Crypto Market Optimism: Bloomberg

The crypto exchange whose parent company is backed by Peter Thiel revived its public listing plans shelved in 2022.

Peter Thiel holding cash (Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)

Tecnologie

Rollup-in-a-Box Startup Caldera Raises $15M From Peter Thiel's Venture Fund

As Ethereum's Layer-2 ecosystem booms, Caldera's "Metalayer" aims to help developers quickly launch applications across multiple networks.

Citrea says its zero-knowledge rollup will help expand Bitcoin's ability to accommodate NFTs and DeFi. (Unsplash modified by CoinDesk)

Finanza

Peter Thiel's Founders Fund Leads $85M Seed Investment Into Open-Source AI Platform Sentient

The project aims to address concerns about the proliferation of AI whereby the underlying code is concentrated in the hands of a few superpowers like Google or Meta.

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Finanza

Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Vitalik Buterin Back $45M Investment in Polymarket

The series B funding round comes during a breakout year for the crypto-based prediction market platform, and brings its total funding well over $70 million.

Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan (Polymarket)

Tecnologie

Thiel-Backed Cryptography Startup Lagrange Raises $13M

Lagrange, which specializes in zero-knowledge cryptography, is the latest startup to ride EigenLayer's "restaking" wave.

Peter Thiel holding cash (Rachel Sun/CoinDesk)